EAST RUTHERFORD -- The NFL has doubled back on its Josh Brown domestic violence case while in the middle of its messy Ezekiel Elliott domestic violence suspension and appeal.

The former Giants kicker has been suspended another six games, according to a report by ESPN's Adam Schefter, after a second personal conduct policy investigation into domestic violence allegations made by Brown's ex-wife. It's the end result of a nearly 11-month, second investigation into Brown after "new" information emerged.

Brown initially was suspended one game by the league.

It's largely a procedural move. Brown, 38, hasn't kicked in the NFL since the Giants cut him last October, and he almost assuredly will not play again. It will also be viewed as a case of curious timing for the league, which is fighting to uphold a six-game domestic violence-related ban on Elliott, the Cowboys' star running back.

A Texas judge will rule by 6 p.m. Eastern on Friday on granting Elliott and the NFLPA an injunction. If Elliott gets it, his suspension likely will be put on hold for the entire 2017 season.

He will play in Sunday's season opener against the Giants, but he is then scheduled to miss the Cowboys' next six games.

Brown was initially suspended one game in August of 2016 for violating the personal conduct policy in connection to a May 2015 arrest on a fourth-degree charge of domestic violence after an incident involving his then-wife at their Woodinville, Washington, home. That arrest was first reported by NJ Advance Media after Brown's suspension was announced. The charge was later dropped.

The Giants initially stood by Brown, who they had re-signed to a two-year, $4 million deal prior to that season, even after a full police report emerged that detailed numerous allegations of abuse by his ex-wife. Brown had claimed the incident that led to his suspension was "just a moment."

Brown served the one-game suspension and returned to the team in Week 2 of last season, but the scandal erupted again in late October when police released documents, first reported by NJ Advance Media, that included Brown's written confessions of numerous incidents of emotional, physical and verbal abuse.

The new documents also revealed NFL Security protected Brown's then-wife and her children when Brown allegedly became abusive at the 2016 Pro Bowl in Hawaii, and that Brown had lied to reporters about their divorce being finalized (it wasn't until January of 2017).

Brown's then-wife had turned the documents, which included personal journal entries, over to police days after his 2015 arrest.

The blindsided Giants, who were about to fly to London for their Week 7 game against the Rams and said they were not previously aware of the existence of the documents, left Brown off the trip. The kicker was later placed on the commissioner's exempt list, and cut by the team once they returned home. He has not played in the NFL since, and his kicking career is likely over.

"I think we've said all we need to say about that," Mara said in March at the NFL owners meeting in Phoenix. "It's a new year."

General manager Jerry Reese held a contentious press conference a week after Brown's release last season in which he refused to discuss the situation and told reporters to "stop asking me" about Brown. Head coach Ben McAdoo always deferred to the team's official statements on the matter when asked last year.

Brown, who had previously denied the existence of some of the documents that ended up leading to his release, resurfaced during Super Bowl week in February for an interview on ABC's 'Good Morning America.' He blasted the league for using his personal journals against him and alleged the NFL "knew everything" from the start of his first investigation.

Brown admitted to physical abuse during the interview, but said he "absolutely disputes" his ex-wife's claim to police that he was physically violent on more than 20 occasions during their marriage, maintaining that he never struck his wife.

"I put my hands on her," Brown said. "I kicked the chair. I held her down. The holding down was the worst moment in our marriage. I never hit her, never slapped her, never choked her. Never did those types of things."

It was, as with his dueling statements after being cut, a semantical argument at best, and a sloppy attempt to mislead at worst. Brown's ex-wife did tell police in an interview that he never "struck" her, but she also alleged Brown had, at one point in their marriage, hit her repeatedly with the zipper end of a jacket, which Brown admits to in the written documents.

Brown's ex-wife also said he slammed her into a large mirror after kicking the chair and before he pinned her to the ground - allegations the investigating detective found credible, according to her notes, after viewing evidence and damage in the house, as well as hearing his ex-wife's story on multiple occasions.

Brown did not specifically address the alleged mirror incident in any of his writings included in the police documents. But Brown's wife did tell police during her interview that, "he's admitted to people about the, the night with the mirror."